![]() ![]() What better time for a student of behavior to hone their skills than an election year? Every debate is anticipated, not for the content, but to study the candidates’ body language. In fact, I hereby declare 2008 the Year of Behavior. I always prefer to look forward and this year is no exception. Hello from the Editor Stefanie Hoover, CFI Regional Loss Prevention Manager, Toys R Us I have never been accused of being a sentimentalist. Wayne Hoover, CFI, WZ Mike Keenan, CFI, Meryvns Stores Claire Goldsmith,CFI Schaumburg Police Dept. Zulawski, CFI, CFEĭan Doyle, CFI, Beall’s Dept. Enjoy the holidays, your family, and your lessons learned. There are many more lessons I learned this year. What is being said, how it is said, what is admitted, is all there. Management point of view what a terrific monitoring and measuring tool. When it is recorded, you have everything they said, as well as what was said by the interviewer. ![]() One has to only look to the destroyed CIA tapes of terrorist interrogations to see the value placed on them by Congress. The police are moving toward recording at least serious criminal interrogations and I think the next five years will see the trend continue. But overall, I like the idea of having what was done and said there for all to see and hear. A recording can cut both ways as evidenced by a story out of the Bronx in this issue. Recording an interview can solve a lot of problems and really lock someone into what they said. Informants blow in the wind looking out for themselves, and they will change stories for reasons only they know. Another lesson I will take away with me this year is never to trust an informant. This was a life lesson that could have turned out very differently, but I have carried it with me all these years, along with the horrified look on the officer’s face. Moments later I discovered bullets in the suspect’s vehicle and shortly thereafter a gun in the suspect’s sleeve. ![]() The CPD officer put our suspect in the back seat right behind him. What have we learned? Sure there were highs and lows, but what lessons are worthy of carrying forth with us as we move into the New Year? I can remember being a railroad police officer working on a case with the Chicago Police Department. I think a moment or two of self reflection in our lives makes sense with the hectic schedule we all keep these days. ![]() Zulawski, CFI, CFE organizations each Chairman CISA Advisory Committee year review what they believe are the key pieces of history we lived through and the implications for the future. This is the time of year we should consider our blessings and think about the twelve months past. Letter from the Chairman of the CISA Advisory Committee First, let me hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and have a healthy and happy New Year. 2007, Center for Interviewer Standards & Assessment, Ltd. hayes comments, facts and tidbits welcome cfis cfi recertification cfis on the move INSIDE THIS ISSUE letter from the chairman hello from the editor missing and exploited children legal aspects human resource harassment interviewing book review from a private investigator’s perspective using the CFI 19th annual theft survey by jack l. Cfinsider Journal for the Certified Forensic Interviewer ![]()
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